Karma Dargis

“After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“أؤمن أن على المرء أن يعيش حياته بالطول والعرض ، وليكن موته عنيفًا”
― Malcolm X

“As with other paired bracketing devices (such as parentheses, dashes and quotation marks), there is actual mental cruelty involved , incidentally, in opening up a pair of commas and then neglecting to deliver the closing one. The reader hears the first shoe drop and then strains in agony to hear the second. In dramatic terms, it's like putting a gun on the mantelpiece in Act I and then having the heroine drown herself quietly offstage in the bath during the interval. It's just not cricket.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation